Rocky Mount police said the shooting death of a man and woman in a restaurant appears to have been a murder-suicide.Police think 37-year-old Carlos Whitacker of Rocky Mount opened fire in a restaurant shortly after 11:30 a.m. Thursday, killing 41-year-old Cynthia Jeanette Joyner. Investigators say Joyner worked in the restaurant.Police found Whitaker's body in some woods behind the shopping center a short while later. Police think he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Investigators did not say how Whitaker and Joyner were connected but called it a domestic situation.No other injuries were reported.

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. —

Rocky Mount police said the shooting death of a man and woman in a restaurant appears to have been a murder-suicide.